On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:25:13PM -0400, Josh M Osborne wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:42:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...]
> > > Instead, AMD implemented the Intel APIC specification;
> > > I'm not sure if they did it by licensing the patent
> > > (Intel had a patent on the APIC design), or if it's
> > > just been long enough for it to come off patent
> >
> > The Athlon uses the Alpha's ev6 spec, not the intel spec.
> That may explain why you can buy Alpha systems with 40+ CPUs, and
32 max, on Wildfire.
> Intel XENON boxes with no more then eight (or is it four?). It is
Eight, eg on a Compaq Proliant 8000. Or 32 for the Unisys (IIRC) CMP
machines.
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